The post drew so many hits that it crashed the site, and the book shot to the top of BookFinder.com’s list of the most searched-for out-of-print books. (For a sampling of pages apparently approved by the Gorey estate’s lawyers, click here.)

Now, Bloomsbury has brought “The Recently Deflowered Girl” back into print, along with “The West Wing” and “The Glorious Nosebleed,” two other Gorey books long unavailable as freestanding volumes. Unsure how to handle the awkward aftermath of being seduced at a séance or by a marimba player? Expertly arch help is on the way.

It’s rare for a Gorey book to be out of print, much less forgotten.

“Most of his works are in print,” Jonathan Kroberger of Bloomsbury said in an e-mail message. “Those that aren’t tend to be works that he illustrated but did not write.”

Indeed, as it turns out, someone else wrote “The Recently Deflowered Girl.” The perfectly Goreyesque nom de plume Hyacincthe Phypps actually belongs to Mel Juffe, a veteran of Radio Free Europe, Eye magazine and The New York Post who died in 2005.